Things I like about College

• SCHEDULE FLEXIBILITY!!
• lots of free time, although this can be a bad thing, since I waste a lot of it
• not being late for things – seriously, my family is late to everything. Since I’ve gotten here, it’s like some alter ego has been unleashed. I’m five minutes early for basically everything. And it’s rather refreshing.
• my suitemates! We got really lucky, we get along sooo well.
• my classes, for the most part
• being in dorkland alllll the tiiiime
• incredible variety of extracurriculars – juggling club, cycling team, just to name two of my examples
• that’s the end of the list for now, it’s about the length of my attention span

P.S. Knitting has been happening! But I need to take pictures.

College!

Sorry it’s been sooo long. I was freaking out about college and stuff. Now I’m here, and it’s pretty cool. Here are some pics of my dorm (my bedroom is tiny, but our common room is supernice):

Awesome window seat thing in our common room - difficult pic to take with the sun shining in.

My little desk area.

My bed (yeah, unfortunately top bunk) and dresser in our teensy room.

The majority of stash that I brought. It only has to last partway through October...

Also, some knitting has happened…

…although I forgot the edging yarn on this so while I wait for my mom to mail it to me, I’m starting an Ulmus out of some STR. No pics yet, still swatching.

I took pictures.

And I like them!

As soon as I saw this pattern, I knew I wanted to make it – fortunately, my darling sister said I could make it for her.

Pattern: Diamond Halter by Jill Gutman Schoenfuss, Knitty Spring 2009

Needles: US4 and 6

Yarn: Berrocco Zen, color 8244

Mods: Instead of making it as a halter, I sewed the straps onto the back like a normal tank because when she tried it on as a halter, the back sagged down (she’s too skinny!)

Paradoxical

So right now, I’m super-inspired knitting-wise. It’s all I can do to work on one project for more than 5 minutes. I’m slightly less uninspired to write on this blog, as evidenced by the existence of this post. However, I’m supremely uninspired photography-wise, which is weird because I always admire blogs like b r o o k l y n t w e e d, Coloursknits, and a Friend to Knit With (just to name a few) for their fantastic photography and I KNOW that to get better I need to do it more, but for some reason I just don’t feel like it…it makes me feel a bit hypocritical.

Every once in a while I wistfully browse eBay or craigslist for DSLR cameras, thinking that maybe having a better camera will inspire me more, but then I always decide against it either because I promised myself I wouldn’t buy one until I get a pattern published in Knitty or similar or because I don’t feel like I deserve it anyway since I don’t really work at photography as it is…

I’m not actually feeling as down on myself as this post would have you think, though. Much less so than in previous weeks, in fact. I’ve been knitting, reading, playing badminton, and generally having a cool summer time, and all our Israeli relatives are coming to visit for ten days this Thursday! Some of whom I haven’t seen ever (in the case of some babies) or in a long time! Huzzah!

Blah

Sorry for the continued silence, if anybody’s still out there. I don’t have a good excuse or anything, I’ve just been lazing about in a summery fashion.

I’m working on some cool stuff that I finally took pictures of – if you want updates check them out on Ravelry.

Why yes, I am a failboat.

I’ve been back for a week but haven’t posted. I just haven’t felt like it…

For one, I got the flu (yes, probably swine flu) on my trip, which SUCKED.

And then this past week I was at music camp – my last year! It was fantastic, but I’ve been feeling all nostalgic and stuff since the concert yesterday.

I have been knitting some, but don’t have any good pictures.

I have been getting used to my lovely new MacBook Pro (grad present from the ‘rents) though!!

Bad Blogger…

• I haven’t posted in a week.
• I won’t be posting (most likely) for the next 3 weeks – since I’ll be in EUROPE!
• I got my new laptop (MacBook Pro 13″)!!!

Adulthood, eh?

So today I’m 18. Pretty weird to think about.

Got some cool gifts though, and my mom made a great dinner!

Also, I graduate in 3 days…and leave for Scotland in 8…

Sorry for the blog silence of late – I’ve been thinking a lot (about endings and beginnings and sometimes the stuff in between) but I guess I didn’t really feel the need to share.

It was dire, my friends.

Awhile ago, I cleaned (part of) my room. But my desk, quite intimidating, was left a disaster area:

Until today. I got home and for some reason was inspired. So I hauled everything off my desk, took out the drawers, etc. and began. I went to Staples and bought a drawer organizer. It was epic. In that monstrous pile of a ‘before’ picture, there was quite a treasure trove…

Among the goodies encountered (and this is just ON the desk, excluding the floorspace and drawers):

• iPod and earbuds
• $5 Canadian
• a $50 gift certificate
• 512MB flash drive
• 512MB SD card
• 4 cookies and a 2/3-eaten bag of Tostitos
• my Stitches East 2009 confirmation!!
• some paperwork for college and stuff
• this hat
• 2 balls (partly used) and 2 skeins of Mmmmmalabrigo
• some booklets I was supposed to read for school aaages ago
• AAA batteries
• knitting design sketches and miniature prototypes
• so many crumbs I’m surprised I don’t have a resident ant colony yet (ETA: I later found 2 ants, so the jury’s still out on this one…)

Also, I addressed a design flaw in my room that had been bugging me for quite some time, that flaw being that my nightstand sits right in front of the only heat/AC vent in the room. So my dad and I cut a hole in the back of it aaaand…

But I know all you really want to see is the desk afterwards, so I won’t keep you waiting any longer.

Tada!

How long will this insurmountable miracle last? Only time will tell…

P.S. The drawers inside the desk are (basically) organized, too! I just was lazy and don’t have pictures.

A New Beginning

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